The newly functional National Labor Relations Board has wasted little time chipping away at a backlog of cases that piled up over the nearly yearlong period that it lacked enough members to rule, issuing five decisions on Thursday adopting preliminary rulings that went unchallenged.
T-Mobile has agreed to settle a California federal suit from a gay ex-store manager who claimed he was fired as punishment for complaining that a coworker harassed him by mocking his voice and calling him a diversity hire.
Cracker Barrel servers urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up the restaurant's chain's bid to review evidentiary standards used to authorize collective action notices, arguing that no circuit split exists because the Ninth Circuit ruled on the permissibility of a two-step certification process and not required showings for notice authorization.